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Beware of humans and glacial maximums – the story of cave bear extinction

The cave bear is one of the dozens of species of large Pleistocene mammals that faced extinction during the last Ice Age. Until today, the reasons for their extinctions remain mysterious, especially since the cave bear Ursus spelaeus populated vast areas of Eurasia for more... click to read more

Verena J. Schuenemann | Assistant Professor at Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Joscha Gretzinger | PhD student at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

extinction

ancient DNA

cave bears

ice age

Reading time 3 min

published on Mar 25, 2020

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